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author | Zhiming Wang <zmwangx@gmail.com> | 2015-09-22 12:59:09 -0700 |
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Latest post: update with more accurate info
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diff --git a/source/blog/2015-09-21-zsh-51-and-bracketed-paste.md b/source/blog/2015-09-21-zsh-51-and-bracketed-paste.md index 591a973e..b295f3fb 100644 --- a/source/blog/2015-09-21-zsh-51-and-bracketed-paste.md +++ b/source/blog/2015-09-21-zsh-51-and-bracketed-paste.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ date_display: September 21, 2015 --- -In short, Zsh 5.1 introduced bracketed paste mode[^1] and turned it on by default (as it seems to me). It is nice in certain ways — I appreciate the change, yet I was bitten nevertheless. In at least two ways: +In short, Zsh 5.1 introduced bracketed paste mode[^1] and turned it on by default (as it seems to me[^update]). It is nice in certain ways — I appreciate the change, yet I was bitten nevertheless. In at least two ways: 1. Most annoyingly, `url-quote-magic` doesn't work anymore when pasting URLs, so for example if I paste @@ -47,6 +47,21 @@ else fi ``` +--- + +<span id="update">**09/22/2015 update.**</span> I only read `NEWS` and not `README`, so I missed out on a very clear announcement of the [bracketed paste incompatibitilies (between 5.0.8 and 5.1)](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/68405f31a043bdd5bf338eb06688ed3e1f740937/README#L38-L45): + +> The default behaviour when text is pasted into an X Windows terminal has +changed significantly (unless you are using a very old terminal emulator +that doesn't support this mode). Now, the new "bracketed paste mode" +treats all the pasted text as literal characters. This means, in +particular, that a newline is simply inserted as a visible newline; you +need to hit Return on the keyboard to execute the pasted text in one go. +See the description of `zle_bracketed_paste` in the `zshparams` manual for +more. "`unset zle_bracketed_paste`" restores the previous behaviour. + [^1]: Bracketed paste mode is a safeguard against inadvertent interpretation of pasted text, e.g., newline being treated at `accept-line` in Zsh. You may read more about it [in this blog post](https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste), which is somewhat outdated yet still informational. [^2]: I seldom use this dumb (literally) thing, but when I do I expect it to work ungarbled, naturally. + +[^update]: Indeed it is. See [update](#update) with more accurate info from official source. |